Mike Mazurki Overview:

Character actor, Mike Mazurki, was born Michail Mazuruski on Dec 25, 1907 in Tarnopol, Galicia. Mazurki died at the age of 83 on Dec 9, 1990 in Glendale, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

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Austrian-born actor. In America from an early age, he was a professional footballer and wrestler before taking his huge frame to Hollywood to play hoodlums' henchmen. Dim-looking (but actually well-educated), with hook nose, open mouth and aggressive, small-eyed stare, he would have done any Damon Runyon story proud, and became the definitive Moose Malloy in the 1945 version of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Mike Mazurki Quotes:

Roshko: We were the best burglars of the Left Bank, my little Mouse and me. We gotta expand. We'll rob the Right Bank, too.


Elya Carlson: [from trailer] If Mr. Thomas every gets tired of me and spends his evenings with other ladies...
Chad: You'll cut his own throat.


[Moose has taken Marlowe to Florian's to look for Velma]
Philip Marlowe: I tried to picture him in love with somebody, but it didn't work.
Moose Malloy: They changed it a lot. There was a stage where she worked... and some booths... pink flowers was in the slatwork. She was cute as lace pants.


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In 1936 he played minor=league football with the Wessington Passaic (NJ) Red Devils, a team in the American Football Association.

Best remembered as the lumbering, intense yet soft-hearted Moose Malloy in the classic 1945 film-noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', called Murder, My Sweet (1944) in the US (while retaining the novel's title overseas).

Well known to generations of wrestling fans as "Iron" Mike Mazurki, whom he delighted with several world-class battles in during his long career. Outside the squared circle, Mike was dedicated to serving those in his wrestling brotherhood, and in the 1960s founded the "Cauliflower Alley Club", a non-profit organization that awarded scholarships and financial assistance to retired or injured wrestlers and their families.

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